My
paintings hold testament to my ongoing investigation of consciousness.
Specifically, I am interested in consciousness beyond personal identity, or
what may be termed as non-local consciousness. Here I use the phrase personal
identity to describe an agglomeration of various interrelated mechanisms of
identity; including mind, intellect, memory, emotion, habit, body, culture and
context. This complex of overlapping facets of identity defines and maintains
the lens of self through which we experience the world. In this light, non-local consciousness can be
seen as consciousness bereft of the confining parameters of self.Non-local consciousness maintains all the
potentiality of identity and self, but lacks the requisite boundaries of them.
It is the substrate from which they actualize in the first place. This view of
course posits consciousness as the primary reality, all phenomena being a
manifestation or condensation thereof.

Non-local
consciousness is accessed only experientially. It is beyond the scope of a
cognitive or intellectual approach, for thinking—intellect and cognition—provides
the fulcrum of self-centric awareness. Thus, my artwork is fundamentally
experiential. Each of the organic, improvisational compositions is an evocative
allusion to the experiential quality of non-local consciousness. It is not an
asserted position on the nature of non-local consciousness, but rather a
suggestion of the experience of it. This ambiguity is vital to the appreciation
of an ineffable, trans-personal dimension of consciousness from the vantage of
a rational, identity-conditioned being. Also importantly, a palpable conveyance
of interconnectedness is of overarching significance to my concept. Two further
themes are centrally intrinsic to my work. Firstly, I cultivate the absence of
spatial-temporal specificity—the absence of the defining context of
recognizable time and space.And secondly,
I invite the absolution of paradox—visual or thematic conflict presented so as
to illuminate mutual compatibility rather than incongruence (i.e. gross/subtle,
volition/response, entity/expanse). By this method my work is spoken in a
language that is at once familiar and absorbable, yet also inconclusive and
ungraspable. More than anything, my art affirms non-representational visual
image as a potent and relevant vehicle for engaging a subtle and reflective
examination of reality beyond the self.